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From the architect. The building contains 20 dwellings in six
floors, the ground floor is intended for 3 commercial premises, and the
underground level for 31 parking spaces and 20 storage rooms.

A bright facade during the day, rich with
dynamic volumes and shadows that at night is lit as a dimmed lighting box, achieves
a porous building. The facade is very light, deep and variable according to the
use of its inhabitants, creating reflections, shadows and silhouettes that flow
between the interior and exterior.

A thin, perforated skin, a translucent veil that
from the exterior works as a sunscreen, to improve the environmental
performance of the building, and as a visual filter, to preserve the privacy of
the occupants.

From inside, the brightness contrast between the
perforated part and the opaque part of the panels keeps the views.

The dwellings are laid out
around the central core, leaving every room towards the facade and the building
services towards the interior. The location of the rooms in the corners allows
us to play with the composition of the facade, laying out the balconies freely
from side to side, and making it disappear over the four planes of enclosure.

The sliding system is applied to
the entire building, from the facade where the shutter is replaced by
perforated metal panels, to the sliding interior partitions that are integrated
into the Krona walls. The spatial flexibility, freedom of movement and
distribution creates a clean, smooth and flexible space, dilating and expanding
the relationship space.

400 panels of perforated aluminum
sheet (anodized matte silver), 3mm thick, make up the second skin of the
building, creating a seemingly immaterial appearance of the limits, and a
porous architecture that can seem imperceptible.

The panels slide along the
entire facade, generating mobility and uniformity from the outside, whereas
from the inside, the panels can appear and disappear as required, obtaining an
open system of a variable facade according to users and not determined by the
architect.